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Agriculture

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Your Plant's Best Friend. Silicon: A Plant Nutritional Enigma". Video Power Point by Dr. Emanual Epstein. Professor Emiritus, U.C. Davis. This powerful presentation reiterates the benefits of silcon to crop productivity. Below is a partial list of crops that respond positively to silicon fertilizer applications. 50 lbs (22 KG) per acre up to 1,000 lbs (454 kg) per acre on an annual basis for best results. Is the soil lower limiting? If yes use a higher rate at seeding. Contact your local agronomist.

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Home

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Your Plant's Best Friend. Learn what Silicon can do for you. Safe on the Environment. Is an Enhanced Efficiency Fertilizer (EEF) that saves agriculture producers money, energizes the ecosystem and protects the environment. Our Natural Fertilizer benefits agriculture upstream, is good for communities downstream and helps keep the fisheries healthy - naturally. Increased bio-mass in LSU study. Take a closer look at Silicon.

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Organic Farming

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Organic Farming Principles and Practices. Written by John A. Biernbaum. This overview of Organic Farming is very informative and educational. Below is a partial list of crops that respond positively to silicon fertilizer applications. 50 lbs (22 KG) per acre up to 250 lbs (113 kg) per acre Depending on Soil:. Is the soil lower limiting? If yes increase your rate . What is the crops best range for silicon in the soil? Contact your local agronomist. Where Alfalfa is one of the nine rotational crops. Moveme...

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Horticulture

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Your Plant's Best Friend. Flower farming in beds, gardens, baskets, pots and homes can be richly satisfying. Flowers are usually started in flats or trays using soilless growing mediums. Since these mediums rarely contain much plant available silicon it makes the plants grown in them highly susceptible to plant disease and pests. Using amorphous silicon has worked well with Ibey Nursery owner Chuck Ibey on their Black Eyed Fuchsias with and without MontanaGrow. See for yourself. USDA-ARS, Toledo, Ohio.

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Science

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When crops are harvested, silicon gets carted away for consumption and a variety of uses; it does not stay in our cropland forever. Silicon washes to the bottom of the oceans into subduction faults only to eventually be ejected into Earth's atmosphere by a volcano, thus completing the silicon life cycle. Resource for Video Presentations. Silicon is the second most abundant element in the earth’s crust. So how can there be a shortage of silicon in our soil and plants? Here is a list of links to recent Mon...

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Benefits

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Your Plant's Best Friend. Enhance Drought and Salt Resistance. Water for irrigation is a big economic and environmental challenge for everyone. MontanaGrow is highly absorbent, much like a sponge, requiring less water equating to less money for water, labor and electricity. MontanaGrow works from roots to shoots and even polymerizes as a gel on the surface of plant tissue slowing transpiration and decreasing salt toxicity. Alleviate Abiotic Stresses (disease and pests). MontanaGrow strengthens cell walls...

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Turfgrass

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Your Plant's Best Friend. Silicon Facts for Landscape/Grasses: Silicic Acid from Silicon Fertilizers. The effects of bioactive silicon (BAS) on plant growth and development in turfgrass is well documented in Edward Bent's book titled "Silicon Solutions". Links to additional research on turfgrass are available below. Silicon Suppresses Leaf Spotting on Bermuda Grass. Silicon in the Life and Performance of Turfgrass. Effects of silicon on leaf spot and melting out in bermuda grass. Increased root length an...

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Silicon

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Your Plant's Best Friend. In 2012 Silicon was categorized as a beneficial substance by the Association of American Plant Food Control Officials (AAPFCO). Prior to AAPFCO approval, all silicon products were listed on fertilizer labels as a non-plant food ingredient . With the new designation, manufacturers can now identify qualifying formulations of silicon as a plant beneficial substance an important distinction. Dr Joseph Heckman published an article in 2013 for. Better Crops with Plant Food. The amorph...

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Customers

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Your Plant's Best Friend. Improves yield and quality. Builds strong roots, stems and foliage. Enhances drought and salt resistance. Alleviates abiotic and biotic stresses. Ready to Use Silicon Fertilizer. The Increasing costs of water, labor and electricity have become a growing concern for turfgrass managers. MontanaGrow is highly absorbent giving turfgass managers a new, safe and natural tool to lower turfgrass water requirements, while still gaining the strength and durability required. Recent science...

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Home & Garden

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Your Plant's Best Friend. Below is a partial list of crops that respond positively to silicon fertilizer applications. Photos Shared by our Customers. 2 tbls to 2/3 cup per gallon of grow medium. 1 tsp per plant every 7 to 14 days. 1 cup per 4 ft row with seeds. 1 tsp per plant every 7 to 14 days. 1 tsp to 1/4 cup per plant on bottom and sides of root structure to reduce shock. Safe around the home.